Knowledgebase: Site Statistics
Is
there anyway to have my stats count the activity of my other domains?
No. There is not a direct way to do this. You must individually login
to the other site control panels to view the traffic for those sites
What
does everything in the site statistics section mean?
Hits: A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent
from a browser. This @includes any response from the server, not only text
files or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images embedded,
the server generates three hits if this page is requested: one hit for
the HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline images.
Files: If the user requests a document and the server successfully sends
back a file for this request, this is counted as a Code 200 (OK) response.
Any such response is counted for as a file. Again, "file" here
means any kind of a file.
Code 304: A Code 304 (Not Modified) response is generated by the server
if a document hasn't been updated since the last time it was requested
by the user and therefore there was no need to actually send the files
for this document. This happens if the browser (or a caching proxy server
between the browser and your web server) still has an up-to-date copy
of the page in it's local storage (cache) and therefore can display the
page without requesting the actual content. This technique is used to
reduce network traffic, but it also causes an inaccuracy in the statistics
reports regarding the number of visitors, because the browser or proxy
usually sends only one such a conditional request per user session if
it still holds an up-to-date copy of the file. However, the ratio between
files and 304's reflects the efficiency of overall caching mechanisms
for at least those hits which made it's way to the server.
Pageviews: Pageviews are all files which either have a text file suffix
(.html, .text) or which are directory index files. This number allows
to estimate the number of "real" documents transmitted by your
server. If defined correctly, the analyzer rates text files (documents)
as pageviews. Those pageviews do not @include images, CGI scripts, Java
applets or any other HTML objects except all files ending with one of
the pre-defined pageview suffixes, such as .html or .text. See also the
PageView directive in the section Configuration File in the manpage.
Other responses: There are much more responses than only Code 200 (OK)
and Code 304 (Not Modified) responses, especially in the coming standard,
the HTTP 1.1 protocol specification. For
example, the server could generate a Code 302 (Redirected) response if
a page has moved, a Code 401 (Unauthorized Request) response if access
to the document is denied or a Code 404 (Not Found) response if the requested
page does not exist on this server. See the HTML specification for information
about all valid responses from a web server. Note that http-analyze does
recognize HTTP/1.1 responses according to RFC2068.
KBytes transferred: This is the amount of data sent during the whole summary
period as reported by the server. Note that some servers log the size
of a document instead of the actual number of bytes transferred. While
in most cases this is the same, if a user interrupts the transmission
by pressing the browser's stop button before the page has been received
completely, some servers (for example all Netscape web servers) do not
log the amount of data
transferred but the amount of data which would have been transferred if
the user would have completely loaded the page.
KBytes requested: This is the amount of data requested during the whole
summary period. http-analyze computes this number by summing up the values
of KBytes transferred and KBytes saved by cache (see below).
KBytes saved by cache: The amount of data saved by various caching mechanisms
such as in proxy servers or in browsers. This value is computed by multiplying
the number of Code 304 (Not Modified) requests per file with the size
of the corresponding file. Note: Because http-analyze can determine the
size of a file only if the file has been requested at least once in the
same summary period, the values for KBytes saved by cache and KBytes requested
are just approximations of the real values.
Unique URLs: Unique URLs are the number of all different, valid URLs requested
in a given summary period. This shows you the number of all different
files requested at least once in the corresponding summary period.
Unique sites: This is the sum of all unique hosts accessing the server
during a given time-window . The time-window is hardwired to the length
of the current month. This means that if a host accesses your server very
often, it gets counted only once during the whole month. Only the sum
of the unique hosts per month is listed in the statistics report.
Sessions: Similar to unique sites, this is the number of unique hosts
accessing the server during a given time-window. This time-window is one
day by default for backward compatibility, but it can be changed with
the option -u or the Session directive in the configuration file. For
example, if the time-window is two hours, all accesses from a certain
host in less than 2 hours after the first access from this host are lumped
together into one session. All following accesses more than 2 hours apart
from the first access will be counted as a new session. This way you may
get an estimated number of how many sessions are started on different
sites
to access your server.
What
is the difference between number of hits and number of page views?
A Hit:
A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent from
a browser. This @includes any response from the server, not only text files
or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images embedded, the
server generates three hits if this page is requested: one hit for the
HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline images.
A Pageview:
Pageviews are all files which either have a text file suffix (.html, .text)
or which are directory index files. This number allows to estimate the
number of "real" documents transmitted by your server. If defined
correctly, the analyzer rates text files (documents) as pageviews. Those
pageviews do not @include images, CGI scripts, Java applets or any other
HTML objects except all files ending with one of the pre-defined pageview
suffixes, such as .html or .text.
What
happens when my monthly transfer reads 0 in my control panel?
This mean you have used up all of your available bandwidth for the month.
Additional bandwidth cost $10.00 per gigabyte and will be automatically
billed to your account.
How
do I view my website statistics?
You would login to your control panel at: www.yourdomain.com or at www.burningbulb.net
and you would CLICK on the Site Statistics button in your control panel.
I
don't like the stats program on the control panel. Can you recomend another
one?
HTTP-Analyze(@included in your account) is a rather detailed program and
should handle all of your needs, but if you need something else. We suggest:
www.HitBox.com or TheCounter.com
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